The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian

Link Love: 7/30/2010

The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent films being destroyed by fire. Now a site called Lost Films is working with museums and the public with a Wiki approach to ID unidentified films that have been found. [via Slate.com]

What do you do when you have too much paper, but too little time? A new Facebook page run by records management folks gives lots of advice. [via Jennifer Wright, SIA]